Fab Five Freddy Quotes
I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.
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Music is another great pleasure of life. I like all sorts.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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I had parents in the business and they made sure that the art was the biggest concern.
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The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
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Being 16 years old and getting an electric guitar is never going to get old. There's always going to be kids making music. There's always going to be kids in bands.
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I studied engineering in the national university, the Universidad Autonoma, in San Ildefonso. There is art everywhere, murals on the walls. It's beautiful.
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Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.
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I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.
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Listening to music is such an uplifting, spiritual thing. It's far-fetched to some - I understand that. But the way dance music brings people together, it's not a big stretch from hymns.
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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I always have music. I love it to be very upbeat. When you're having drinks, I like something like Cesaria Evora. During dinner, I like the much more traditional - old Frank Sinatra and things like that.
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I work in the film business, where schmoozing is an art form, lunch hour lasts from 12:30 until 3, and every meeting takes an hour whether there's an hour's worth of business or not.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
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But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
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There's nothing to compare to live music, there just isn't anything.
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I took the fear of marriage from my parents' relationship, because I didn't want to end up in a relationship like that, whereas my brothers and sisters learnt a lesson from it and made sure they didn't carry it on into their own marriages.
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If you are mindful of death, it will not come as a surprise-you will not be anxious. You will feel that death is merely like changing clothes. Consequently, at that point you will be able to maintain your calmness of mind.
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I always try to see the good in everything, and that gives me strength. Even when I lost in the London Olympics quarterfinals, I said to myself, 'Don't lose heart, God has his own plans.' Actually, life just goes on; you have to accept whatever challenge you face and become stronger.
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He's got more or less a defect there that sometimes gives him problems.
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I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.
